Travel Blogs from Wilmington

... however nothing eventuated other than ten minutes of heavy rain. We were lucky! Sunday morning we packed up and drove the short distance to Wrightsville Beach which is connected by bridge to Wilmington. It is a four mile long beach Island which a beautiful sandy beach. Being the week-end, and school holidays, there were many people on the beach enjoying a beautiful day and the temperature had dropped to the mid 80's so was much more bearable with lower humidity. The water ...

... Western Watergate Inn, it's only ten minutes out from downtown Wilmington so we are there in no time at all. Room 408 has our name on it, Chris bless him has delivered the cases to the hotel during our lunch break so as soon as we get our key the cases are there. A quick unpack of a few things and we have a welcome meeting compliments of the hotel, a free beer and a plate of home grown cuisine. We didn't eat anything as it would have spoiled our dinner but we did take them up on ...

... seafood meal across the road from our hotel the first night in Wilmington. The second night we decided to investigate the Outback Steakhouse, having seen several in our travels. They did pretty good steaks but the only Aussie element were the kangaroo decorations on the walls and the bit of Aussie slang in the menu. The next day we checked out and headed for ...

... not have been in. I decided to roll backwards in order to shift over to the through lane… as there was no-one behind me… WRONG!. A horn honked then a crunch. I got out and apologized profusely as was we surveyed the damage to the hood of his GMC pickup…. a nice little sharp dent. So we pulled over to exchange details. Turned out they were very pleasant and understanding, an older couple from Ohio who had also just arrived in town. Because we ...

... to order some sandwiches from Alicia’s buddy’s place across the street, Chops Deli. If you ever make it to Wilmington make sure a stop is scheduled, the sandwiches were massive in size and flavor. Kaitlyn and I split a Tripoli (pastrami, corned beef, rare roast beef, sharp picante provolone, meunster, baby swiss, red onion, homemade peppercorn mayo, deli mustard and horseradish sauce on rye) and a Malmo (Homemade ...